Busuu, a social network for language learning with over 25 million users, has won a €4m ($5m) prize at local media company ProsiebenSat.1’s SevenVentures pitch day. Second prize went to Wynsh, a Germany-based shopping app, while Capsule.fm, a Germany-based start-up that aims to eradicate text on mobile phones, won €1m.

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